No [poem]

have you ever felt

anger

so deep it’s

sunk in your bones?

as if a shot of lightning shoots through your spinal cord

shocks your body to stiffen –

righteously repulsed

igniting everything inside to scream

NO.

No to hate, no to sexual assault normalization, no to racism, no to white supremacists, no to the post-truth world where facts don’t matter, no to fraud, no to lies, no to narcissism, no to fascism, no to corruption, no to xenophobia, no to sexism, no to misogyny, no to normalization of this madness.

More thoughts forthcoming.